Normally, you would want to play with shadows before you take a picture, not after. It leads to better pictures. "Photography", after all, is "drawing with light".
Thats why Ansel Adams never dodged or burned. He as a master never had to.
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Normally, you would want to play with shadows before you take a picture, not after. It leads to better pictures. "Photography", after all, is "drawing with light".
Normally, you would want to play with shadows before you take a picture, not after. It leads to better pictures. "Photography", after all, is "drawing with light".
...wasn't fond of his own color photography work.Thats why Ansel Adams
Some people are too lazy to bring a reflector or too impatient to wait for a cloud because they believe higher DR with "local adjustments" will make the job. It usually won't.Correct exposure can minimize the need for global adjustments in post processing, but local adjustments may still be desirable (depending on personal preference).
...wasn't fond of his own color photography work.
Some people are too lazy to bring a reflector or too impatient to wait for a cloud because they believe higher DR with "local adjustments" will make the job. It usually won't.
...wasn't fond of his own color photography work.
Some people are too lazy to bring a reflector or too impatient to wait for a cloud because they believe higher DR with "local adjustments" will make the job. It usually won't.
...wasn't fond of his own color photography work.
Some people are too lazy to bring a reflector or too impatient to wait for a cloud because they believe higher DR with "local adjustments" will make the job. It usually won't.
I shoot a lot of landscapes - just because you can recover 5 stops of DR doesn't mean you should! Some scenes are much more interesting if you let it clip. I love the work of Alex Noriega - his photo "The Watcher" is a good example of where not to recover (I couldn't link directly to the image, but it's in this gallery if you're interested).Focus peaking and face tracking are a function of the mirrorless functionality which is why it is not possible using Canon FF which are all OVFs.
I don't shoot a lot of landscapes but I find it hard to imagine there are many circumstances where the extra DR of a Sony will make or break the need to bracket an exposure. I would have thought if you are serious about landscapes you would either bracket or use filters - any image where people point out how great it is to recover 5 stops of shadows and avoid bracketing I think looks flat and uninspiring.
Oh, really? For me, it looks like half of the forum uses 100-400.
I mean this as a genuine question as I think I've missed something, are you meaning you shouldnt/shouldn't have to play with shadows if you get correct exposure?
...wasn't fond of his own color photography work.
Some people are too lazy to bring a reflector or too impatient to wait for a cloud because they believe higher DR with "local adjustments" will make the job. It usually won't.
I'm shooting with the 5Ds - and with that, I have been genuinely surprised about what is possible to recover from the shadows, despite all the internet noise about how the 5Ds is rubbish for this. But fully agree - just because you can, does not mean you should.I shoot a lot of landscapes - just because you can recover 5 stops of DR doesn't mean you should! Some scenes are much more interesting if you let it clip.
I switched from a 6D to a 5D IV and found that, at least superficially, the 5D IV made recovering shadows more manageable than the 6D. More than once the 5D IV has genuinely surprised me on what it could recover - more than once I've bracketed images because it appeared to clip a bit and found that the middle-exposure frame was sufficient.
Nice picture ! I agree the 5DS has a very good exposure latitude, especially considering it’s off chip ADC. But to be honest I could have made that shot with my (original) 5D if I’d used a two stop grad ;-)I'm shooting with the 5Ds - and with that, I have been genuinely surprised about what is possible to recover from the shadows, despite all the internet noise about how the 5Ds is rubbish for this. But fully agree - just because you can, does not mean you should.
Single shot from the 5Ds (with 2 stop ND grad):
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This isn't a fair comment at all. Higher DR can occasionally save an image that would have been unusable otherwise. I'm sure event, wedding and photojournalists can definitely benefit from having higher DR. As humans, we are not infallible, and we may very well not be in the correct setting in the heat of the moment. Will I be proud of pulling 6-7 stops out of an image? Probably not, but delivering an image > telling them I missed the shot.
Beautiful photo! No doubt even with my 6D I almost always found a way around a DR issue - usually with filters, but occasionally with bracketing. To be fair, I still often use filters with he 5D IV - improved DR doesn't mean I expect to capture everything all the time, nor would I want to. My image above was an odd case because I found myself trying to ND grad the top and bottom of the image to capture the whole histogram and it just wasn't working for me, so I tried bracketing instead only to find that in the end I didn't need any of that on the 5D IV. Even though the image was clipped on the histogram, there was more highlight latitude than the camera let on.I'm shooting with the 5Ds - and with that, I have been genuinely surprised about what is possible to recover from the shadows, despite all the internet noise about how the 5Ds is rubbish for this. But fully agree - just because you can, does not mean you should.
Single shot from the 5Ds (with 2 stop ND grad):
Nice picture ! I agree the 5DS has a very good exposure latitude, especially considering it’s off chip ADC. But to be honest I could have made that shot with my (original) 5D if I’d used a two stop grad ;-)
the most siginificent of which in my opinion was the move from 12 bit to 14 bit raws (which happened between the 5D2 and 3) .
Ah, my bad.To be pedantic the original 5D is 12 bit, the 5DII 14 bit.
Ah, my bad.
When moving from the 5D2 to 5Ds, I did notice that the 5Ds has a richness and smoothness of tone that I was decernably better than I was seeing from the 5D2. I had put that down to an increase in bit depth - but I guess its simply Canon improving their color science over the years.